TRENTON — Several state websites, including those for Consumer Affairs and the state banking department, crashed around 10:15 a.m. this morning but were restored about 45 minutes later, officials said.

A spokesman for the Treasury Department, Bill Quinn, said access to the sites was intermittent until about 10:50 a.m. He said the cause was under investigation, but attributed to the crash to a network problem.

The website servers are maintained by the Office of Information Technology, which is overseen by the Treasury Department.

The crash was the third this summer to disrupt the public's access to the state's websites. A week ago, a power outage at a state information technology facility took down dozens of state websites, affecting everything but the courts and Legislature.

The blackout at one of the state's data-processing centers happened at 5 a.m. Sept. 12 The state's websites were back online and fully functional 10 hours later.

On July 20, officials said a fire alarm triggered at an technology facility, possibly because of excessive heat, also cut off power to the state's equipment.